The inaugural speaker in the new Henry C. Gardiner Global Food Systems Lecture Series at K-State: senior vice president and chief technology officer with Monsanto, Robert Fraley, discusses several aspects of meeting world food demands in the coming decades.

K-State head of the Department of Agronomy Gary Pierzynski talks about how soil is one of the four necessary functions of life. This is part of the 2015 International Year of Soils and January's theme, "Soils Sustain Life."

Part two of a three-part series, Charlotte Shoup Olson, K-State Research and Extension family system specialist, explains the importance of having open communications among family members during a farm succession.